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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Length
Wide
Sky
Size
Ignorance
Pure

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He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.
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i want to hear what's happened to you, she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. it's just that there is nowhere else to start, she said gently. niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.
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I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.
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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
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I might not be able to use the word hope, but I could certainly use the word optimism. I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?
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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.
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